by Michael Hiestand, USA TODAY Sports

by Michael Hiestand, USA TODAY Sports

CBS announcer Jim Nantz said Monday it's hard mentally to move on from the dramatic injury of Louisville's Kevin Ware in the team's win over Duke Sunday.

Nantz, who called the game with Clark Kellogg, said "when you're that close to it, it's hard to get the image out of your mind. ... You replay it over and over in your head."

Kellogg, on a conference call Monday, said the injury created "as raw and emotional a circumstance as I've been involved with as a broadcaster. ... I was virtually not able to say anything. Actually, I was praying myself."

On Sunday, the two announcers spoke only sparingly during the delay after the injury. "There were people who were visibly sick in the stands," said Nantz Monday. "What could you say? There was very little you could add."

CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus, reiterated Monday what he told USA TODAY Sports Sunday that the footage of the Ware injury will not air again on CBS -- at least not where the injury can be clearly seen. Said McManus: "If it's ever shown again, for whatever reason, we'd blur it out and not show the graphic detail of the poor kid's leg."

While CBS drew strong ratings from Sunday's one-sided games, the network can't be thrilled that Ohio State, a big school from a populous state, was eliminated Saturday by Wichita State. In explaining why Michigan-Syracuse will get the marquee late-game time slot in the Final Four -- with Wichita State-Louisville in the early slot -- McManus noted that "the Big Ten traditionally brings a lot of television homes into the equation."

But Nantz argued that "it's always good to have a Cinderella story going into the Final Four."

Steve Kerr, who'll call the Final Four with Kellogg and Nantz, noted that at least Gonzaga, the No. 1 seed in the West and eliminated by Wichita State, can relax: "They can sit back and say, 'We didn't choke.' Wichita State is for real."